Angel Orensanz Foundation

New York, May 1, 2005

Angel Orensanz brings his recent work to a tour in Russia

An Exhibition of Angel Orensanz at the Alexander Pushkin Museum, Moscow; and at the Russian Museum Rumyantzev Palace in St. Petersburg.

This May 2nd, 2005, the Alexander Pushkin Museum in the Arbat in central Moscow, and on June 2nd the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg will present a major exhibition of New York based/Spanish born sculptor Angel Orensanz.

The show consists of an installation of powerful images on silk, a large collection of drawings and sculpture works created for these exhibitions.

"Earth, Death-Birth" deals with a central theme of Orensanz's personal take on the perennial dichotomy and tension between man and environment. " Earth is both a cradle and a grave, a circular flow of fear and pleasure. Man created the cities and encircled them from nature to create culture, to create himself/herself. Earth is torture and healing" stated recently Angel Orensanz in his studio in the Lower East Side, on Norfolk St. Angel Orensanz has created and constantly is creating powerful installations in massive landscapes in the Spanish/French Pyrenees, in Northern Japan, Holland Park in London and in the coastline of California. He videotapes those installations and interactions with nature to ten create short productions of high caliber art videos. "Orensanz is not an environmentalist but a poet of the earth with the passion of a Greek explorer. His paintings, drawings and sculptures unveil an earth that is gripping and dripping, soaked by turns in tears and bliss; blood and seduction, but it is never the fluffy, soft edged panoramic vision of political and advertising discourses" wrote the late French art critic Pierre Restany.

Angel Orensanz has been involved in the Russian art scene for the last fifteen years. He erected an installation (Bridges) at Red Square in 1991; he carried out performances on a Red Square snow blanketed Winter of 992 and in 2003 he was invited to participate in the White Nights Festival in front of the Hermitage Square in St. Petersburg.

The opening in Moscow of his Earth, death/birth will be presided by poet Andrei Boznezensky, considered the most important living Russian poet and admirer of the work of Angel Orensanz and members of all sectors of the arts and culture community in Moscow.

A fully illustrated , 125 page catalogue about the work of Angel Orensanz, with a prologue by New York art critic Robert C. Morgan will be published and presented in New York on May 18, 2005.

The exhibition at the Alexander Pushkin Museum in Moscow is curated by Elena Potenima; and the show in St. Petersburg by Irina Likhomanova, with support from the director of the Peter and Paul Fortress Museum where the Rumyantsev Palace in St. Petersburg.

The coordinator of the exhibition is Vladimir Luzgin, on behalf of the Russian museums and the Angel Orensanz Foundation

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